Re: [RFC] imap-send: escape backslash in password

> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>> I also think it might be reasonable to scrap all of this ad-hoc imap
>>> code in favor of curl, which already gets these cases right. We already
>>> have a curl-backed implementation. I think we just left the old code out
>>> of conservatism. But it seems somewhat buggy and unmaintained, and I
>>> wonder if we aren't better off to simply encourage people to install
>>> curl.
>> That is a very attractive direction to go in, especially in the mid
>> to longer term.  Perhaps we declare that the ad-hoc hardcoded imap
>> is deprecated in the next cycle and drop the support by the end of
>> this year?
> That is fine by me. AFAIK, we already build the curl support by default
> when a sufficiently-advanced version of curl is available. So if there
> were feature-parity problems hopefully somebody would have reported it.
>
> I think the deprecation here can be relatively fast because we're not
> actually dropping support for any feature. We're just requiring that
> they install curl to get the same functionality (which might be
> inconvenient, but it's a heck of a lot less inconvenient than "there's
> no way to do what you want anymore").
>
> -Peff